Epidural chloroma and spinal cord compression

Spinal cord compression syndrome caused by intraspinal epidural fibrous cord

RATIONALE The spinal cord compression caused by intraspinal epidural fibrous cord. PATIENT CONCERNS All patients in this study had spinal cord compression syndrome caused by an intraspinal epidural fibrous cord, manifested as abnormally increased epidural adipose tissue by imaging. DIAGNOSE These abnormal fibrous connective tissue strips were not identical to the known pathological tissue s...

Spinal cord compression and epidural abscess extension of pleural empyema.

We report a case of epidural extension of pleural empyema with cord compression and neurologic deficit. Surgical decompression was required and emergency bilateral laminectomy was performed with removal of abscess and granulation tissue. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus grew in cultures of pleural and epidural specimens and appropriate intravenous antibiotics were started. In spite o...

Epidural spinal cord compression: a single institution's retrospective experience.

Epidural spinal cord compression (ESCC) is a common metastatic complication occurring in 5% of patients with cancer. We sought to determine retrospectively the frequency of multiple sites of ESCC at presentation and the risk of recurrence of ESCC. Of the cancer patients seen by the University of California San Diego's Neuro-Oncology Service between August 1986 and January 1997, 108 developed ES...

Spinal Cord Compression due to an Iatrogenic Lumbar Epidural Abscess

The epidural approach is currently an option in treating pain and in anesthesia. According to the literature [1-4], a rare complication of this technique involves the infection of deep tissues around the catheter or the formation of an epidural abscess (the true incidences of these problems remain uncertain), estimated to have developed in approximately 0.2-1.2% of every 10,000 hospital admissi...

Treatment of metastatic epidural spinal cord compression: the Goldilocks principle.